tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730822.post7468439849709114748..comments2015-03-03T14:36:29.939-05:00Comments on the joy of sox: Pinning Your Hopes On A 45-Year-Old Pitcherallanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04673233312198832937noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730822.post-88119860174282565872007-05-08T23:49:00.000-04:002007-05-08T23:49:00.000-04:00Meh, every pitcher needs to 'eat innings', it seem...Meh, every pitcher needs to 'eat innings', it seems, to be worth something to the Yankees. If they aren't guaranteed to go 7 innings every time out I guess they're completely not worth it.<BR/><BR/>Clemens in the rotation just means the Yankees don't have to go to guys like Darrell Rasner or Chase Wright every fifth day, who are nearly guaranteed not to eat innings. Roger also gives you a much much better chance to win than those wannabe major league starters. How is that not huge? <BR/><BR/>Saying Clemens will cost the bullpen is logical fallacy, it was already being costed by guys like Rasner who can only give you 80 pitches a game, max.<BR/><BR/>Also - Hughes won't be out till July. He has a grade 1 hamstring tear, and he's already been throwing off flat ground. His hamstring is probably already mostly healed. He'll probably be back mid-June, at the latest.Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14886555303418904575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730822.post-58367086278709560852007-05-08T16:14:00.000-04:002007-05-08T16:14:00.000-04:00Oops - totally forgot about the Hughes injury, yea...Oops - totally forgot about the Hughes injury, yeah.Stefanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12645059638547163119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730822.post-3175202530935125552007-05-08T15:45:00.000-04:002007-05-08T15:45:00.000-04:00Stefan: Isn't Hughes going to be out for at least ...Stefan: Isn't Hughes going to be out for <I>at least</I> another month? Fathead could return before Hughes does.<BR/><BR/>He'll likely pitch 5+ innings more often than whatever warm body they would have plugged into the 5th spot without him -- or rather be shelled in the 4th or earlier less often. Which is good for a team that was last in starter innings per game.redsockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04673233312198832937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730822.post-11574382455140410972007-05-08T15:18:00.000-04:002007-05-08T15:18:00.000-04:00Clemens needs to eat innings to give Joe Torre's b...<I>Clemens needs to eat innings to give Joe Torre's bullpen a break.</I><BR/><BR/>And he won't. This is a key point; what's the net effect of getting 20 starts from Roger but putting an extra 20-40 innings of work on your (already struggling) bullpen? I bet some SABR type could work up a nice analysis on this... signing Roger makes the starting rotation better, but it will undoubtedly make the bullpen worse over the long haul, which affects every game, not just every fifth.<BR/><BR/>I could see September getting real ugly, with both Roger and the Yanks' bullpen getting awful tired.<BR/><BR/>About that starting rotation, though: so far most of the "the Clemens signing is worth X wins for the Yankees" (with X being between 2 and 7) have been based on Clemens replacing Igawa in the rotation. But as we know Igawa's down in single A, and would be whether or not Clemens signed with the Yanks. The actual rotation going forward until Roger shows up will be some combination of Pettitte, Wang, Mussina, Hughes, DeSalvo, and Rasner... and you know, that's not half bad. Sample size is real small on the last three but they seem at least decent.<BR/><BR/>Obviously adding Clemens to your team makes you better, but I think they're paying a tremendous amount of money for what could be a fairly minor upgrade in performance. The boilterplate rebuttal to this is: they're the Yankees, they've got the money, why not spend it? To which I'd say, well, instead you could get an extra year out of one of your high upside young pitchers. And spend the money on a high-end relief pitcher or two, which you probably need more desperately than Rog.Stefanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12645059638547163119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730822.post-11603952105211499042007-05-08T15:17:00.000-04:002007-05-08T15:17:00.000-04:00William will be watching the playoffs back home in...<I> William will be watching the playoffs back home in Texas with Kody, Kacy, Kodak and Kleenex.</I><BR/><BR/>Nice touch. :)L-girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05524593142290489958noreply@blogger.com